University at Buffalo School of Medicine - Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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a surgical needle for the assistant scrub nurse during a skin biopsy. Mechanized maneuvers continued under the leadership of General Milch, as roller skates were donned in order to keep up with the advancing front during ward rounds. Zim Zeller and Bill Zuazaga, how- ever, were soon lost behind and had to resort to a relay system in order to maintain contact. 7 t , , Between lulls in the fighting came voluminous case histories. At the Meyer, quadrupli- cates were made, one copy being presented to the head nurse who corrected it and made out the grades. Colonel Levitt held reveille each morning at 7:30. lt did not take long, however, to realize that ward rounds were watering the vegetables , that the therapeutic approach to an 80-year-old patient was to congratulate him and leave him alone , and that the most common complication in patients at this hospital was adhesions to the mattress . However, the highlight of activities came when Levitt presented Frank Fote with the bronze tongue blade for being present at morning rounds twice in succession. Attendings at the Meyer front were rare birds and it was here that Al Connette remarked that he wasn't sure but that he may have seen a few flying over Lockport. Neil Fuhr and Al Gartner, however, being more intrepid souls were sent on reconnaissance to find one in order to present their cases. At this writing they are still missing in action. Nevertheless, much was still to be learned and research flourished. Joe Genewich admitted that in his series of 50,000 routine urine exams ltaken at randoml he had tabulated l29 types of urine crystals, Gene Loeser decided to market commercially the free HCL in Wayne Greenberg's stomach, Jack Banas decided upon a residency in chess playing after being OF 1952

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President . . BURT STULBERG Vice-President . . BRUCE F. CONNELL Treasurer . SOLON H. GOTTLIEB Secretary . . . BARBARA .l. GARONO Student Council . . ALVIN BROWN MEDICAL CLASS Down broke over the fall sky as the Meyer and the General battalions of clinical recruits were called to reveille. This was it-a full year of clinical maneuvers on two fronts, broken up by a marathon six week bivouac at the Children's Hospital. The task forces immediately went to work-the Abo-Loeser battalion invading the urine and CBC laboratories of Grider Street, closely backed by the Maurizi-Zuazaga reservists on High Street who promptly invaded that well-known induction center, the library- later to be made famous by that noble platoon, headed by Don Sprecker which maintained possession of all the lounging chairs and retaliated all counter-attacks from decorticate librarians with music boxes. At the Meyer, however, a losing battle was fought as an embargo was placed on all medical students. Among the many losses there we will always remember Corky McLeod screaming, as he was slowly being strangled: There it is-it's been on the shelf all the time! As the battle progressed, observation posts were set up. Vic lGoldiel Panaro received the distinguished clerk's cross for his able description of operations as he managed to get close enough to the operating table to use his binoculars. His feats were closed matched, however, by Bob Shea who managed, only at gun point, the unheard of feat of threading

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Top: D. Dohn, V. Panaro, M. Lapp, J. Banos, K. Wegner. Middle: B. Baumler, L. Conforto, A. Connette, W. Schwartz, .l. Underwood, D. Kelley. Front: H. Richards, B. Wilson, B. Stulberg, S. Gottlieb, S, Simpson. beaten twice consecutively by Baumler, and Al Brown discovered a new treatment for ingrown toe-nails-psychotherapy. Not to be outdone by the above mentioned astute group, Burt Stulberg took time off his diet to re-organize the General battalion after they had suffered various setbacks. Burt rapidly fell by the wayside, however, as his caloric intake finally won out and Gerry Somich manned the helm-100 lbs. of dynamite as any attending will testify. Ollie Steiner became the best interne the General had in years even tho' Omar the tent-maker had to make his uniforms. lt took Ollie almost a month to convince Gordie Schmitt that my patient is falling apart is not an accepted clinical diagnosis. Chip Simpson remained the only man who could sleep through a lecture and still ask questions about it later and Phoebe Saturen reported in one of the conferences that there is a case reported in the literature of thymoma in guinea pigs over 80. General inspection followed at which time fingernails were inspected and pens were examined to see if the correct shade of green ink was being used. Daily rounds in medicine were preceded by the recitation of LincoIn's Gettysburg address to that well-known attend- ing, Byron Sheesley, however, flunked the course given by this same attending because he could not remember the cover colors of the textbooks he had read. To this day Byron still insists that he is color blind. Then, iust as things began to cool down again, orders came to report to the Children's Hospital lor make mine a bottle of V2 N. saline pleasel. Here General Rubin informed us that there were many accepted pediatric field manuals but recommended that we read the